[Sderby] Debian

[Ashley Heath]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:18:01 +0000 (GMT)
roger.shone at btinternet.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Anyone out there running debian at present?
> I've just upgraded my pc and rather than reinstall fedora core, thought I'd try the latest debian cd's (7 in total - taken the best part of all day to download). This will sit alongside windows xp - this needed a third party driver for the hard disk controller to boot.
> 
> My issue is that debian doesn't find the hard disk (serial ata drive) and consequently won't install - does anyone have any ideas? I've trawled through the debian site but can't find anything specific.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger

Hi Roger,

Been using Debian for a while now, but not used any SATA drives TBH.

The stable release is usually 12-18 months behind bleeding edge, the latest kernel on the stable install CD's is 2.4.18, I think you will need 2.4.21+ for SATA support.

Ash